Abstract
In the dry season of 775–76 CE, the ruler of the Maya polity of Copán, Honduras, dedicated an inscribed and historiated table altar in the West Court of the Copán Acropolis. Now recognized as Copán Altar Q, the work commands an important place in the historiographic construction of high civilization in lower Mesoamerica. A close reading of the work reveals a complex project of historical, dynastic, and spatial world making. Altar Q fashioned a highly particular construct of history and viewing experience, reading and bodily encounter, embedding the rhetoric of ritual performance with the sculptural language of the monumental relic.
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